Indian Literature in English-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Appraise the post-Independence stage of development of Indian writing in English
  • Examine the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
  • Appraise the various forms of literature and the writers’ themes and issues
13.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Nissim Ezekiel                                                             

Night of the Scorpion

Enterprise

 

A.K. Ramanujan                                                           

Obituary

Love Poem for a Wife I

 

Mamta Kalia                                                                 

Tribute to Papa

Sunday Song

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century                                

 (fromGrowing up as a Woman Writer)

 

Lakshmi Kannan

To Grow or Not to Grow: That’s the Question for Women

(from Growing up… )

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Girish Karnad                                                              

The Fire and the Rain

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Mahesh Dattani                                                           

Tara

14.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Anita Nair

Ladies Coupé

Source Books: 

de Souza, Eunice ,ed. Nine Indian  Women Poets: An Anthology. OUP, 2002.

Gokak, VK, ed. The Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry. Sahitya Akademi,1977.

Jain, Jasbir, ed. Growing Up as a Woman Writer. Sahitya Akademi, 2005.

Karnad, Girish. Collected Plays. OUP, 1994.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Bheda , P.D, ed. IndianWomen Novelists in English. Sarup, 2005.

D, Ramakrishna. ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Writings. Atlantic, 2005.

Nawale, ArvindM. ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Poetry and Drama: Text and Contexts. Author Press, 2010.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022